in the material plane; that freedom of speech, freedom of the purpose for worshipfulness of Creative forces according to the dictates of one’s own conscience, shall never perish from the earth …
Then, we find one destined—by that already accomplished, and the intent and purpose—to be a power, a voice among his fellow men; in strange places, in strange lands—perchance.
Yet, let it be with that purpose for which the entity once took that oath; to sustain those principles, those activities which caused the foundation of this land.
Hence in service for his fellow man, in the raising of the voice for considerations in all walks and all phases of man’s experience, we find the channels through which the entity may have an outlet for not only the expansion of his virtues as indicated, but also make for a growth in the knowledge and in the power and the might of one doing God’s service among his fellow men …
Before this, then, the entity was in the name Adams; John Q., or Quincy.
2167-1
In Rome he had been an interpreter of the law and an advocate of freedom of speech and freedom of activity for all the people. From the Holy Land, [2167] had acquired the innate tendency to be “soulful” about matters in life and as a result he was easily discouraged. In lifetimes in Israel and in Egypt, he had developed an intense interest in spirituality. He was told that his greatest strengths in the present would be as a political economist or a diplomat.
Three years later, in 1943, [2167]’s mother reported that her son was then the youngest officer on the faculty of a tactical school in New Jersey. He was married and had three daughters. No additional follow-up reports are on file.
Alexander the Great
356-323 B.C.
Case 1208
Alexander (III) the Great was one of the greatest conquerors and military leaders the world has ever known. Schooled by the philosopher, Aristotle, he became king of Macedonia at the age of twenty. By the time he died at the age of thirty-three, he controlled an empire that spread from Greece to India and encompassed both the Egyptian and Persian empires.
Parents of a three-day-old boy were told in 1936 that their child’s upbringing and education were of the utmost importance. Cayce predicted that if the child were raised properly, his life would be instrumental in helping to create a new world order that could unify humanity. The parents were told that their son had once been two leaders from the past: Alexander the Great and Thomas Jefferson. Although his soul had gained in its incarnation as Jefferson, he had lost as Alexander. (See also “Jefferson, Thomas.”)
Before that we find the entity was in that land during those periods when there were the activities that made for the rise and fall of many lands, in the Grecian, the Persian, all of the eastern lands; when that entity now known as Alexander the Great made for the conquering forces of the earth—the depleting that there might bring to self the exaltations.
Here the entity lost. For these will become in the experience of the entity those influences that might makes for right, or power making for indulgences. And if these are not conquered in the experiences as the principles that are set in its earthly experience, these may run as wild in the very activities of the entity—even as then.
1208-1
As if foreseeing coming events, the reading warned the parents that their child’s opportunities for fame or “those of defame, will be as one.” At least seven times in the reading, Cayce reminded the parents of their important role in guiding and directing this child. Unfortunately, [1208]’s parents had an extremely difficult relationship so that the boy never received the stable upbringing he required. Until he was fifteen, he was shuttled among relatives’ homes in different states (and various schools) so frequently that he was rarely in the same place for even a year. His difficult childhood made it impossible for him to obtain the potential promised in his reading. Confirming Edgar Cayce’s statement that he would “belong … to the world,” his life took him to such places as Japan, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Africa. Although he was personable and people liked him, much of his life seemed spent in trying to find himself.
Audubon, John James
1785-1851
Case 410
John James Audubon was an ornithologist, a naturalist, and an artist who became known for his drawings and paintings of North American birds. His classic work, The Birds of America, contains more than 400 handcolored plates. The National Audubon Society, founded in 1905, was named after him.
In April of 1934, a forty-two-year-old widow was told that she had an innate talent for seeing “the beauties that are seen in nature … The song of the bird, the beauty of the rose, the buzz of the bee, the activities of those things that give forth in themselves the expressions of the joy of just using—for the time being—a portion of God in their activity.” Apparently, she had once been Audubon:
Before this we find the entity was among those peoples that came into this land, where there might be a refuge from the trials first of that they had experienced in the rough voyage on the sea, and in what is now known as Louisiana.
The entity then was among those peoples that found a haven there, and brought to those lands in the latter experience the joys of many, and builded for much that has given joy and peace to the minds and hearts of many who have loved God’s little folk in the bird kingdom.
Then, in the name Audubon, the entity made for a home; and when turmoils and strifes came, even through those trials of those that made war—and the changes in the associations, the entity brought to many the faith and hope still in those same powers and influences that had preserved them from the water and from the billow and from the storm; that though the forces in nature may roll and rage they may destroy only the body, and the soul may live on in that which has been the desire.
410-2
Mrs. [410] was told that she possessed broadness of vision and could deeply appreciate anything that grew, anything that was alive or anything that was beautiful to behold, whether it was “the blessings of the afternoon rain or the morning sun.” Her talents as an artist and her love for nature had developed in Chaldea when she had learned to appreciate the beauties of everyday life. In ancient Egypt, she had learned of purity and had worked in one of the temples.
In the present, [410] possessed talents as an artist and was encouraged to direct her skill into such things as the creation of booklets or greeting cards and pictures which could bring beauty into the lives of those who were sick, depressed, or in need. She also maintained an interest in a flower business.
Augustus
63 B.C.-A.D. 14
Case 1266
Originally named Gaius Octavius (also known as Octavian), he was the nephew of Julius Caesar. When Octavian was only eighteen, Caesar was assassinated, but in Caesar’s will Octavian was named adopted son and heir by his uncle and given the name Gaius Julius Caesar. In the power struggle that followed Caesar’s death, he became one of three individuals charged with reorganizing the republic. Shortly thereafter, he and Mark Antony defeated Caesar’s assassins and divided the empire amongst themselves.
